Study at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine (SPHCM) in Sydney at UNSW. The School is a leading postgraduate educator in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region through our Master in Public Health, International Public Health and Health Management programs. Our School is committed to excellence in research, learning and teaching and action to enhance public health and health services.

Epidemiology and biostatistics are fundamental disciplines that underpin public health and clinical research. The stream is designed to allow students to evaluate research and develop the skills to undertake their own research requiring quantitative research methods. <See Specialisation details>.

Social Research MPH Specialisation - new in 2015

Many of the causes of health, illness and wellbeing are only partly explained by biomedical factors and are minimally altered by biomedical interventions. Thus solutions to health problems often lie outside the health system. This specialisation provides students with training in sociological conceptualisations of health and in approaches to health issues using both quantitative / epidemiological and qualitative / interpretive methods. <See Specialisation details>.

Thank you from MSF
Thank you from Médecins Sans Frontières – Doctors Without Borders – to UNSW Alliance Against Ebola for raising funds to assist the Ebola response. The UNSW Alliance against Ebola (UNSWAAE) has been established to raise awareness and funds to support the efforts in controlling the Ebola outbreak. <Read letter>

ARM training workshop for Ebola responders
Missed the workshop? Lectures now available online as a free resource. The ARM network presented a 1 day intensive workshop for ARM members intending to deploy to West Africa for the Ebola response, as well as for first-line responders in Australia. <See workshop videos>

Cyclists break road rules to stay safe
Most cyclists who use bicycles as a form of transport admit to breaking road rules at some time while riding but they do it mostly to guard their own safety on the roads, UNSW research has found. Cyclists, were surveyed by researchers as part of the Safer Cycling Study led by A/Prof Roslyn Poulos from SPHCM. <Read details>

ARM Network Launch

SPHCM UNSW is now a member of WHO's Global Outbreak Alert Response Network and a founding partner of ARM, a new network to enable Australia's capacity to respond to cross-border and regional infectious diseases outbreaks. <See News article> and <Full details of ARM>